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Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 11:20 pm
by Kip
Please beware should you get an email from Alex McKenzie from CW (see below). It has the subject of christopherward 5/3/2019

I am highly suspect that this a phishing email or a virus waiting to be unleashed. I have no idea of the source, but have notified our IT people to see what they can discover.
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Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:10 am
by jtc
What url does the REVIEW DOCUMENT hyperlink lead to? A quick hover over any suspicious url usually reveals it to be phishing. Curious to know what the scammers are trying. Given your proximity to those at CW, this could be a targeted spear phishing attack.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 8:22 am
by BJH
I got this last night and tried to open it. It went straight to my one drive so dumped it before going any further.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 8:35 am
by GMT_plus_One
I got it as well.
It linked to a document at box.com which looked like a oneDrive screen.
If you click it, it opens a website named mediac.ga that tries to look like a oneDrive login screen.
Nothing really happened as I don’t have a oneDrive account.

Florian

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:31 pm
by mattjary
Received this yesterday, deleted it straight away as someone on the cwe Facebook page warned it was a virus.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:35 pm
by Essex Paul
Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 3:43 pm
by Amor Vincit Omnia
:problem: “Christopher uses box...”

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 5:07 pm
by magicman
Yes, got this too, and now deleted.

Thanks Steve

Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 6:51 pm
by goodjack
Also a big thanks!

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 11:03 am
by AbstractAndy
Yep, another member with the phishing email....
I guess the worrying thing is that there must have been a data breach for the, ....can’t think of the technical term... oh yes “ jerk” to have got our email addresses. I wonder what other information they have had access to...payment card details, home address...?
Do please keep us updated CW.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:05 am
by Kip
Our IT people have determined that this was definitely a phishing-email. As a result several emails were sent out via Alex's mailbox.

I have been assured that all has been done to mitigate against any risk/exposure both internally and externally.

There has been no security breach to any sensitive information whatsoever.

All you need do is to delete the email.

Re: Beware.....Phishing or virus?

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:16 am
by MiniMpi
Thanks for the update Kip :thumbup: